A group of more than 70 schoolchildren and their teachers have been evacuated six days after becoming stranded by flood water at a campsite in north Queensland.
The group from The Willows State School had been trapped at the Echo Creek adventure park near Tully since last Monday.
Meanwhile, a million-dollar reward will be offered for information on the execution-style murder of gangster Willie Thompson, and a wannabe race car driver may well have set a new record in Melbourne.
Australia Correspondent Jason Morrison spoke to Duncan Garner.
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